Seeing with the eyes of the Master Sculptor

'When a fanatic dealt several damaging blows to
Michelangelo's Pieta, the world was horrified.  It surprised no one
when the world's best artists assembled to refashion the disfigured
masterpiece.'

‘When sculptors arrived in Italy, they didn’t begin
repairing the marred face immediately. Rather they spent months
looking at the Pieta, touching the flowing lines, appreciating the
way each part expressed suffering yet ecstasy. Some spent months
studying a single part such as the hand until finally the sculptors
began to see more and more with the eyes of Michelangelo and to
touch and feel as the master artist would have done. When the
sculptors finally began repairing the face, the strokes belonged
almost as much to Michelangelo as to themselves.’

—Matthew and D Linn from Healing of Memories